I read The Perils of JavaSchools, at this point my programming skills are basically at the level of the “Blub” programmers mentioned in this. I’m thinking of learning objc to gain lower level computer understanding. (I.e pointers) Not sure how relevant the article is today.

I just registered a domain for my new project. I used Hover. While I’m here, here’s your daily reminder to never use GoDaddy. My father has had a domain name there for as long as I can remember. No many how times he changes his credit card, they keep finding a way to bill him.

I’m starting to warm up to the idea of Wavelength. My old app Podler only allowed 30 second posts. Since there is only a bit limit, there could be great podcasts made with phones if the effort was put into it.

As the Indie Web movement gains speed I’ve started to wonder about the future of the Indie Web. Most of technologies that power the current incarnation of the indie are either older than I am or accomplish similar things to the old technologies. However I think it is a bit pretentious to think that Weblog syndication formats are the be-all-end-all for Indie Web standards. (I’m not sure how many people think that they are.)

I think that we need open standards for every aspect of our digital life, Snapchat-like functionality, instant messaging (I know IRC exists), Facebook-like photo album management, Video publishing (This could be done with JSON feed, but it wouldn’t be optimal). All of these things should have the ability to be hosted by other providers, but have a central repository similar to Micro.blog.